Collar for sweaters.



H. STARR.

COLLAR FOR SWEATBRS.

APPLICATION FILED 311.17, 19134 1,087,614. 4 Patented Feb.17,1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFTQE.

HYMAN STARR, or NEW YORK, 1v. Y.

COLLAR FOR SWEATERS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, I-IYMAN STARR, a citizenof the United States of America, residing in New York, in the borough ofManhattan, county and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Collars for Sweaters, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an improved collar for sweaters which can beused as a standing collar for protecting the neck of the wearer, or as aturn-over collar, that fits neatly and snugly around the neck when thecollar is not used as a standing collar; and the invention consists of acollar for sweaters of improved form possessing certain novel featureswhich will be described hereinafter and finally pointed out in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a front-view of myimproved collar for sweaters, shown as folded over, Fig. 2 is aplan-view of the same as spread out into flat shape, and Fig. 3 is avertical transverse section of the Same on line 3, 3, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout thedifferent figures of the drawing.

My improved collar for sweaters is made of a seamless tubular body,which is knit either on a straight or on a circular knitting machine insuch a manner that it is shaped and curved while `in the process ofknitting in the machine by adding successively needles when starting atone end of the collar and throwing off successively needles at theopposite end of the collar. For this purpose the outer portion of thecollar is knit in a continuous -band a of uniform width, which isprovided at each end with loop-shaped stitches al for permitting theconnection of the looped stitches with the tubular front-strips of thesweater by hand knitting stitches. The central portion b of the collaris made tapering from the outside toward the inside of the collar, whilethe side-portions c are made of approximately triangular shape andlocated between the` ends of the band a and the inclined sides of thecentral portion Supposing that the knitting of the tubular seamlesscollar is commenced at the left-hand end, the stitches required for theouter band a are formed continuously, while for the adjacent triangularportion c one needle Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led February 17, 1913.

Patented Feb. 17, 1914. Serial No. 748,870.

after the other is thrown in in knitting so as to produce the triangularshape of the same, loop-stitches c1 being formed along its edge incontinuation of the loop-stitches al of the band a for connecting theedge of the collar with the edge of the V-shaped opening in the body ofthe sweater. W'hen all the needles are working the knitting is continuedfor a few courses only, when all the needles are dropped out of work atonce, excepting those required for the outer band, which knitcontinually. The knitting of the central tapering portion of the collaris then continued as follows: The outer band of the central portion iscontinued with the same number of needles which are employed for theouter band of the side portion, while additional needles one by one arethrown in until all are back into work and the portion up to the lefthand dotted line is knitted. Then straight knitting is continued on allthe needles for the middle portion of the central portion Z9 for acertain number of courses up to the right dotted line, Fig. 2, whentheoperation is reversed, that is to say, one by one all the needles arethrown off until the number of needles required for the width of thecuter band only is at work. Then all the needles are again engaged inwork for two or three rounds only, and-then one by one the needles areagain thrown out of work, so as to knit the triangular po-rtion c at theright hand side of the collar, leaving only the number of needlesrequired for completing the outer band. The throwing in and out of theneedles in knitting the triangular and central portions of the collar iscontrolled by a jacquard attachment, which is operated in connectionwith the knitting machine.

By the angular shape between the tapering central and triangularside-portions of the collar, the outer continuous band t of the same isgiven a curved or angular shape, by which the folding over of the collaris obtained without stretching and without forming folds, so that thecollar lits snugly around the neck and shoulders when attached to thebody of the sweater and folded over the same. When the collar is to beused as a standing collar for protecting the neck, it is raised andforms an effective protector for the neck.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, .a tubular and seamless collar forsweaters, comprieing a inain portion having tapering Sides, sideportions having tapering sides adjacent to the tapering sides or theinain portion7 said inain and side portions being joined integral Witheach other' and oined and shaped in knitting and tubular and seamlessthroughout their length and an outer hand extending at the exterior oi'the inain and side portions.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a tubular and seamless collar forsweaters7 coinprising a. body formed of an outer continuous Curved hand,a Central tapering portion adjacent the curved band, triangularsideportions adjacent the Curved hand and adjacent the ends of thetapering portion7 the outer ends of the hand and side-edges ot thetriangular side-portions being provided with looped Stitches forknitting Connection with the liront-strips of the sweater-body shapedinto forni in the knitting and ar 25 ranged tubular and seamlessthroughout the length oit the tapering portion. and side-portions, saidouter continuous curved hand eX- tending from one end of one sideportion along the Side portion, along` the niain por- 30 tion alone' theother .side )ortion to the 7 b 7 other end thereot.

lin testimony, that I elaini the foregoing as m3T invention, l havesigned iny naine in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HYB/iifii STARR.

VVit-nesses 4 PAUL Gonrni., JOHN MURTAei-I.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner et latcnts. Washington, D. C.

